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The Municipality of Pontiac has announced that evacuated residents of the village of Quyon have returned to their homes. The municipality wanted to remind the residents that only those mentioned on its Facebook page may return and that until further notice the municipality is asking all sandbags to be kept in place. The Municipality of […]

According to the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board, the water levels associated with the initial peak due to natural spring runoff from the west-central portion of the watershed have now been reached everywhere along the Ottawa River. However, water levels are expected to remain high for the next two weeks. Among others, the Coulonge lake […]

Monday May 6th, the Pontiac Sorting Center responded to the Quebec Minister of Environment, Benoit Charette, about the order to cease all depositing and burying of residual materials in non authorized locations (Litchfield) immediately and to proceed with restoring said land as soon as possible. The answer of the Pontiac Sorting Center stated “we have […]

The Pontiac is breathing a bit easier over the last few hours of sunshine and the water stabilizing on the Ottawa and the Coulonge Rivers. Once again, CHIP 101.9 spoke with Phillip Holmes, a councilmen of Bristol, to get an update of the current state of the municipality in terms of flooding. Yesterday, Wednesday May […]

The website Urgence Québec updated their assessment of the consequences and evacuations of the spring flooding across Quebec, which represents the current state of the situation. It should be noted that this temporary portrait was produced using information provided by the Ministry of Public Security and by municipalities. Residences that are no longer flooded are […]

The MNA for Pontiac, André Fortin, address the 2019 flooding and the strain it could have on citizens in the Pontiac who have been affected:

The Member of Parliament for Pontiac, William Amos, paid a visit to the Pontiac yesterday, Thursday, in some municipalities currently affected by the floods such as Waltham, Mansfield-and-Pontefract, Fort-Coulonge and Isle-aux-Allumettes. There, he met with local authorities to get an assessment of the situation. In an interview with CHIP 101.9 on the subject, Amos said […]

The mayor of the municipality of Mansfield Gilles Dionne gave his impressions of the viral video that shows a motorist on a joy ride through the flooded streets of Mansfield. Gilles Dionne denounced the actions of the individual. The driver of the vehicle was apprehended and will receive two fines totalling $ 2027; one for […]

In a press release issued by the Minister of environment, Benoit Charette ordered the Centre de Tri de Pontiac to stop depositing and burying residual materials in non authorized locations immediately and to proceed with restoring said land as soon as possible. The land in question, at the Centre de Tri Pontiac in Litchfield, has […]

During this 2019 spring flooding, businesses and non-profits from across the Pontiac have been getting involved in divers ways. For example, Bouffe Pontiac with their free thrift shop, Metro Mansfield with free soup and many more, such as Billy T’s Pizza in Shawville, who has been taking their famous Billy T’s truck on the road […]